Who Needs a Goods Vehicle Operators Licence?

You will require a products vehicle administrators permit on the off chance that you utilize a merchandise vehicle of more than 3.5 tons net plated weight or (where there is no plated weight) an unladen weight of more than 1,525kg to transport merchandise for contract or compensate or regarding an exchange or business. (In this occasion 'products' implies merchandise or weight of any portrayal).

For a vehicle and trailer mix, by and large you will require a merchandise vehicle administrator's permit if the gross plated weights or unladen weights of the vehicle and trailer joined surpass the breaking points expressed above for a solitary vehicle.

The administrator's permit ought to be connected for the sake of the individual, organization or association that is the 'client' of the vehicle.

You will be thought to be the client of the vehicle if:

you are the driver and proprietor of the vehicle; or

it is in your legal ownership under an understanding for contract, employ buy or advance; or

the driver is your worker or operator (i.e. you pay them to drive the vehicle for you).